Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls [1947]

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Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls [1947]

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Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls 1947 - Includes 'Peter's Good Luck' & 'The Coward-Boy' by Enid Blyton:

Peter's Good Luck
Illustrations: Elizabeth Wall
Story: Sunny Stories for Little Folks No. 246

The Coward-Boy [The Little Coward-Boy]
Illustrations: Pip
Story: Sunny Stories for Little Folks No. 227
As usual the cave already lists these two stories from the annual.
I had never read them before:

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I enjoyed both stories,even though they were obviously written before metrication and yes,both have a positive ending!
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Re: Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls [1947]

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Great stories, Pete. I'd read 'Peter's Good Luck' somewhere before, but not 'The Coward-Boy'. I love the universe of Enid Blyton's short stories in which people reap what they sow, everyone is given a chance and unfairness is not allowed to reign unchallenged.

'Peter's Good Luck' is remarkable in that Enid Blyton shows how the honesty, perseverance and kindness demonstrated by Peter that afternoon (he even hands his shilling over to his mother and shares his biscuits with the boys who mocked him) continue to affect his life years into the future.

'The Coward-Boy' is notable because Leslie's mother has to take some responsibility for the way he has been treated by his peers.

There are a few minor typos but I think that's just something to do with the program that was used to copy the stories and put them up?
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